ietf-nntp Section 4 - inactivity autologout timer duration
Stan O. Barber
sob at verio.net
Mon Jul 24 10:55:15 PDT 2000
David Riley wrote:
>
> Section 4 states:
> A NNTP server MAY have an inactivity autologout timer. Such a
> timer MUST be of at least three minutes duration. The receipt
> of any command from the client during that interval SHOULD
> suffice to reset the autologout timer. When the timer
> expires, the server should close the TCP connection without
> sending any response to the client.
>
> Is there any particular reason that the timer duration MUST be at least
> three minutes? It seems like an unnecessary statement which limits the
> configurability of servers.
Yes, there was a desire to see that servers would not have autologout settings
that would be so short that a slow client could not detect it.
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